Title: Linux Application Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Contract 3-6 months W2

Interview Mode: Phone/Video

 

Minimum of five years’ hands-on experience with Linux/Unix variants, especially RedHat/RHEL version 7.x/8.x/9.x and its derivatives, including best practices for deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) applications and supporting variants of LAMP such as Tomcat, Java, Python, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

 

Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/8.x & 9.x to include troubleshooting complex issues, configuration best practices, security hardening, and automated provisioning.

Experience in managing hardware load balanced applications

Experience in creating, applying, and troubleshooting TLS certificates for web servers such as Tomcat, Apache, or nginx

Experience with Puppet configuration management system and writing Puppet manifests or equivalent experience with Ansible or Chef

Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres databases

 

Experience designing and implementing technologies following NIST standards, such as SP 800-53, SP 800-190, and SP 500-291

Strong scripting experience with Python, Bash, Java, or Ruby

Experience developing and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy infrastructure and applications using tools such as GoCD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions

Experience breaking down monolithic applications into microservices and Docker containers

 

Experience with access and authentication technologies, such as LDAP, SimpleSAML, or Kerberos

Experience managing EC2 instances, containers, applications deployment and troubleshooting on AWS

Knowledge of layer 3 networking technologies, such as switching and routing

Knowledge of enterprise storage protocols, such as NFS v4, CIFS, and SMB

Experience with content management and learning frameworks such as Drupal 7.x & 8.x or Moodle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

 

Must be able to obtain a NIH Public Trust